The Dina Feitelson Research Award is a US$500 award established to honor the memory of Dina Feitelson by recognizing an outstanding empirical study published in English in a refereed journal. The work should report on one or more aspects of literacy acquisition, such as phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, bilingualism, or cross-cultural studies of beginning reading. Works may be submitted by the author or anyone else.

Nomination for the Dina Feitelson Research Award is open to all literacy professionals.

Submission deadline is September 1, 2011

Dina Feitelson Award Guidelines 
For additional information, contact  research@reading.org

2011

"Talk During Book Sharing Between Parents and Preschool Children: A Comparison Between Storybook and Expository Book Conditions" Reading Research Quarterly Vol. 44, No 2, pp. 171-194 (2009, April/May/June)

Lisa Hammett Price

Lisa Hammett Price is an associate professor in the speech-language pathology program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has worked in preschool and early elementary classrooms to ensure access to the curriculum for children with language disorders. Her current research focuses on parent-child and teacher-child interactions around books.

Anne van Kleec

Anne van Kleeck is a professor and Callier Research Scholar at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her teaching and scholarship focus broadly on children’s language development and language disorders.

Carl J. Huberty

Carl J. Huberty is a professor emeritus in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia. He served as department head and retired in 2007. He taught courses in statistical methods and served as a consultant with faculty on various research grants. He authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and texts, and has received a variety of honors and awards.